ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,348, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).
"Luneburg lens signal repeater" was invented by Walter F. Rausch (Olathe, Kan.), Bharatwajan Raman (Arlington, Va.), Oliver Philippe Coudert (Arlington, Va.), Pei Hou (Centreville, Va.) and Durga Prasad Satapathy (Ashburn, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described herein which utilizes and controls an electromagnetic energy beam steering apparatus. The electromagnetic energy beam steering apparatus uses directional properties of a Luneburg lens to receive RF energy from one or more points of the...